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When can you start placing relatives?
The rulebook's setup and the eruption rules fix the timing, and forum replies agree.
- The Downfall of Pompeii rulebook · Rulebook · Vesuvius Seethes
- The Downfall of Pompeii rulebook · Rulebook · Preparing the Stock Pile
- RPardoe · Community · 2006-05-26
- asmiles · Community · 2006-01-31
- drathbun · Community · 2025-09-16
Only after the first A.D. 79 card is drawn. That card is the ninth card of the stock, so relatives open from the turn after it is drawn. With four players that comes after about two rounds, and later with fewer players.